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Trevor Sorbie obituary

Celebrity hairdresser known for his pioneering 1970s styles the Wedge and the Scrunch

Sorbie, who has died aged 75, was a craftsman in hair, by descent, training and curiosity about his raw material and what could be done with it: he described his work as “cutting from the gut”, with sweeps of sharp scissors in one hand and a rat tail comb in the other, releasing his anxiety through creation. Trevor, who had dreamed of being an artist, went to work in the shop on leaving school at 15, and his father was a tough master – even on Sundays, he set him to hone razors with a stone until they severed hair at a touch. The relationship was de facto over by 1999, later ending in a complex divorce, when Sorbie was exposed in the tabloids as being involved with a sex worker; in a reversal of salon practices, he told her celeb gossip when he styled her hair as part of the payment.

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